511 East 81st Street, Manhattan, NY 10028

The five-story Old Law Tenement building at 511 East 81st Street, owned by Bogdan Brajic and constructed in 1920, has experienced recurring heat and hot water issues in early 2025, with multiple emergency complaints filed between January 16 and 25, 2025, affecting the entire building. These complaints were eventually addressed, though access issues hampered inspections in some instances.

The building has a history of maintenance challenges, as evidenced by a cluster of maintenance code complaints in July 2023, including plumbing issues, door problems, and various appliance concerns, though these were categorized as non-emergency or emergency and were subsequently closed by October 2024. Recent health and safety concerns include documented rat activity in 2024, though the most recent October 2024 inspection passed without violations. The building has maintained a consistent record of bedbug management, with no reported infestations in any of the annual reports from 2021 through 2025.

Previous Department of Buildings complaints regarding illegal after-hours work (between 2022-2024) and site conditions were investigated but did not warrant violations upon inspection. The property has also demonstrated compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, consistently reporting zero infested, eradicated, or re-infested units across multiple reporting periods. Notably, there were some access issues encountered by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development during inspections in 2025 and 2024, which might indicate challenges in coordinating inspections with tenant availability.